Perhaps the biggest void for the Miami Heat to fill during their training camp that started Tuesday is replacing a player who averaged 3.9 points and 1.6 rebounds last season and went scoreless in his two playoff appearances. Sounds easy. It won’t be. For the first time since 2002 — 1,605 games and three championships […]
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UN Security Council approves sending force to Haiti
The U.N. Security Council has voted to send a multinational force to Haiti led by Kenya to help combat violent gangs in the troubled country. The resolution drafted by the U.S. was approved Monday with 13 votes in favor and two abstentions from Russia and China. The resolution authorizes the force to deploy for one year, with a review after nine months.
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Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California dies at age 90, sources say
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992 in the “Year of the Woman” and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, has died. She was 90
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Miami-Dade jails seemingly on track to avoid federal sanctions
A new federal report published this month shows that Miami-Dade Corrections Health Services (CHS) has made strides towards improving conditions in county jails: the rate of inmate-on-inmate violence has dropped and mentally ill people in custody have more opportunities for therapy.
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Recap: CFO Nussbaum refutes budget hawks, defends $41.2 spending plan
At the final budget hearing on Tuesday night, the budget hawks came out firing that somehow the Village sits on a pile of cash while at the same time spends like a drunken sailor. Many who lambasted the proposed budget were members of the newly minted Key Biscayne Neighborhood Association.
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Surfside gives conditional OK for Champlain memorial
In a 3-2 vote, following hours of impassioned testimony, Surfside commissioners agreed to conditionally approve requiring developer DAMAC International to modify its plans and preserve 88th Street for the memorial park for the victims of the Champlain Towers South collapse.
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“Pink wave’ spells good news for Flamingos in Florida
A flamingo is being tracked by a pair of researchers searching to see if wild, breeding populations may return to Florida since they went locally extinct in the early 1900s.
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Seaquarium moves Li’i – Lolita’s Dolphin companion
Miami Seaquarium announced Monday it transported the longtime dolphin who had been a tankmate companion of the late killer whale Lolita to SeaWorld San Antonio Theme Park. The relocation of Li’I, a Pacific white-sided Dolphin, ended an era for Miami where the killer whale and her companions entertained spectators for decades on Virginia Key — […]
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Earp enters not guilty plea in Pita Pockets AK-47 case
The man accused of taking an AK-47 rifle to a Key Biscayne shop and later leading police on a dangerous chase pleaded not guilty Tuesday, and a tentative trial date was set for Dec. 4.
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PODCAST: Ron Magill bucks Zoo Miami on planned water park
Ron Magill and Zoo Miami have been synonymous for the last four decades, as the communications director became South Florida’s go-to-guy on everything about captive wildlife. But Magill is publicly splitting with his management on the Miami Wilds theme park that’s been planned for years in the parking lot of the zoo. He took his case […]